Ewa Björling

Ewa Helena Björling (born 3 May 1961) is a Swedish politician currently serving as Minister for Foreign Trade in the Swedish government. She is a member of the Moderate Party.

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Ewa Björling is a Doctor of Medicine and a docent in virology. Prior to her election to the Swedish parliament in 2002, she worked as a lecturer at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was also a member of the municipal council in Ekerö Municipality from 1999 to 2006, and served as its chairman from 2005 to 2006. She was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002 and served in the parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. She was also a substitute in the Committee on the Constitution, the Committee on Education and the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs.

She was a member of the board of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency from 2003 to 2007. She was also chairman of the National Council for Coordination of Efforts Against HIV/AIDS in 2007, and the Europe's representative in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's working group on HIV/AIDS.

In 2006 she received the Jerusalem Prize from the Zionist Federation in Sweden, which is awarded to persons who "has given extraordinarily support for Israel, Jerusalem and Zionism".

Ewa Björling is married and has two children. She lives on the island of Ekerö west of Stockholm.